Proverbia 18:47

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

span data-lang="lat" data-trans="jvl" data-ref="psa.18.1" class="versetxt"> In finem. Psalmus David. [Cæli enarrant gloriam Dei,
et opera manuum ejus annuntiat firmamentum.
Dies diei eructat verbum,
et nox nocti indicat scientiam.
Non sunt loquelæ, neque sermones,
quorum non audiantur voces eorum.
In omnem terram exivit sonus eorum,
et in fines orbis terræ verba eorum.
In sole posuit tabernaculum suum;
et ipse tamquam sponsus procedens de thalamo suo.
Exsultavit ut gigas ad currendam viam;
a summo cælo egressio ejus.
Et occursus ejus usque ad summum ejus;
nec est qui se abscondat a calore ejus.
Lex Domini immaculata, convertens animas;
testimonium Domini fidele, sapientiam præstans parvulis.
Justitiæ Domini rectæ, lætificantes corda;
præceptum Domini lucidum, illuminans oculos.
Timor Domini sanctus, permanens in sæculum sæculi;
judicia Domini vera, justificata in semetipsa,
desiderabilia super aurum et lapidem pretiosum multum,
et dulciora super mel et favum.
Etenim servus tuus custodit ea;
in custodiendis illis retributio multa.
Delicta quis intelligit?
ab occultis meis munda me;
et ab alienis parce servo tuo.
Si mei non fuerint dominati, tunc immaculatus ero,
et emundabor a delicto maximo.
Et erunt ut complaceant eloquia oris mei,
et meditatio cordis mei in conspectu tuo semper.
Domine, adjutor meus, et redemptor meus.]

Parallel Translations

Nova Vulgata (1979)
[18:48] Deus, qui das vindictas mihi et subdis populos sub me, liberator meus de inimicis meis iracundis;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

avengeth: Heb. giveth avengements for me, Deuteronomy 32:35, 2 Samuel 22:48, Nahum 1:2, Romans 12:19

subdueth: or, destroyeth, Psalms 47:3

Reciprocal: Judges 4:23 - General Judges 5:2 - for the avenging 1 Samuel 14:24 - I may be 1 Samuel 25:26 - avenging thyself 2 Samuel 19:5 - saved Esther 9:5 - smote Psalms 127:5 - speak Psalms 144:2 - who subdueth Acts 26:22 - obtained 1 Corinthians 15:28 - all things Revelation 18:20 - God

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[It is] God that avengeth me,.... Or "gives vengeance unto me", or "for me" t: vengeance only belongs to God, and he repays it for and in behalf of his people. Private revenge is not to be exercised by any; public vengeance on delinquents may be exercised by the civil magistrate, to whom God gives power and authority to exercise it,

Romans 13:4; as he did to David, as king of Israel; though the phrase rather seems to design the victories which he obtained over his enemies, which were punishments to them, vengeances inflicted on them; and owing to God; so the acceptable year of the Messiah's coming, and the time of his people redeemed by him, is called the day of vengeance of our God, both on his and their enemies, Isaiah 61:2;

and subdueth the people under me; the Edomites, Moabites, and others, as in 2 Samuel 8:1, or the Gentiles under Christ;

2 Samuel 8:1- :;

t הנותן נקמות לי "qui dat ultiones mihi", Pagninus, Gejerus; so Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Musculus, Cocceius, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

It is God that avengeth me - Margin, giveth avengements for me. The marginal reading is a literal translation of the Hebrew. The meaning is, that God had punished the enemies of the author of the psalm for all the wrongs which they had done to him. Compare Romans 12:19.

And subdueth the people under me - Margin, destroyeth. The idea is that he had subdued the nations so that they became obedient to him. The primary notion of the word used here - from דבר dâbar - is to set in a row; to range in order; to connect; to lead; to guide; - then, to reduce to order; to subdue. This God had done in respect to the nations. Instead of being rebellious and tumultuous, God had reduced them to obedience, and had thus set him over a kingdom where all were subject to order and to law.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 18:47. God that avengeth me — The way that I took was after his own heart; therefore he sustained me in it, and did me justice over my enemies.

Subdueth the people under me. — He keeps down the spirits of the disaffected, and weakens their hands. They are subdued, and they continue under me; and this is the Lord's doing.